Congenital bronchial atresia (CBA). A critical review of CBA as a disease entity and presentation of a case series.

Purpose: To analyse the state of the art of diagnostic imaging in the rare disease entity known as congenital bronchial atresia (CBA) and to suggest new guidelines for diagnosis.

Materials And Methods: From January 2002 to December 2003 we examined 6 patients, 4 males and 2 females. Four of them complained of relapsing bronchitis; one patient was admitted with a diagnosis of pulmonary abscess.